Senior MLOps Engineer

Exclusive Talent Management is hiring a Senior MLOps Engineer on contract in Abu Dhabi to build and operate the infrastructure that moves machine learning models into secure production.

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Salary: AED 15,000 to 20,000 per month, inclusive of fixed allowances

Key Responsibilities

• Containerise models with Docker and deploy them on Kubernetes in on-premise inference environments
• Serve LLM pipelines (regulation parsing, RAG search) and predictive models (forecasting, supplier risk scoring)
• Optimise inference latency and resource use through quantisation and distillation
• Build training and inference pipelines with Kubeflow or MLflow, including experiment tracking and CI/CD
• Monitor model drift and performance and set up automated retraining

Requirements

• 5+ years in MLOps, ML engineering or ML platform roles
• Expert knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, MLflow and experiment tracking
• Strong Python, with working knowledge of PyTorch, TensorFlow or Scikit-learn
• Experience deploying transformer models with Hugging Face and LangChain
• Experience in on-premise or restricted secure environments
• Agile delivery experience and strong communication skills